Monument record 14005 - Excavated Post Medieval Boundary Ditch, Lea Manor Farm

<1> Professor Emeritus Nick Higham, 2013, Lea Manor Farm, Aldford: Report on Archaeological Investigation associated with the Re-development of Lea Manor Farm (2013) (Client Report). SCH7869.

In 2013 excavations in advance of development at Lea Manor Farm recorded a ditch (feature 21), located to the north-west of the farm. It measured approximately 1.5-2.4m wide and was orientated north-east/south-west. The lower fill of the ditch contained eighteenth century pottery fragments. The upper fill was dominated by sherds of pottery dating from the late eighteenth to nineteenth centuries but also contained a variety of earlier material. This boundary was marked on the 1830s Tithe Map, where it divided George Pulford’s farm at Lea Manor from James Mullock’s, who farmed from Aldford village as a tenant of Mrs Margaret Harrison.

<2> N J Higman, 2015, Lea Manor Farm, Aldford: Report on Archaeological Investigation associated with Phase-3 Redevelopment of Lea Manor Farm (2015), R3830 (Client Report). SCH7959.

In 2015 a further phase of archaeological investigation occurred at Lea Manor Farm in advance of the construction of a large cow building on the west side of the complex. It identified a further 76m stretch of the boundary ditch first excavated in 2013.